Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far we 've been concentrating on Meryl 's reasons for hanging round on the gallery in the middle of the night ; all well and good , but what was Gladys doing there ? ’ |
| 2 | Doubtless he had his own reasons for stopping off at the island — my own were to attend a workshop aimed at formulating a scientific plan for the development of the archipelago over the next two decades . |
| 3 | South Korea 's foreign ministry said : ‘ The North 's professed reasons for pulling out of the NPT convince no one . |
| 4 | Having made a tentative decision to come back to nursing , it would be similarly useful to compare your reasons for doing so in the light of the previous exercise . |
| 5 | Only part of the case for answering positively to the question Why save ? has been given . |
| 6 | For semiconductor makers not already committed to building 16-megabit production lines , the case for going straight for the 64-megabit device looks increasingly attractive . |
| 7 | Does the Department of Trade and Industry accept that , while there may be no short-term commercial interest in giving export credit cover , there is a case for doing so in the national and long-term commercial interest ? |
| 8 | We are very concerned that in in making provision for housing through to the year two thousand and six , we should not be making provision for that level of vacancy rate , which seems to us to be artificially high when compared with the the national figures . |
| 9 | She obviously had n't expected Jessamy to provide her with an excuse for staying longer at the house . |
| 10 | For their part it seems likely that his errors and omissions were welcomed by Lewis and Shinwell as an excuse for breaking away from a situation and a personality they disliked in order to establish their own unions in their own communities |
| 11 | Caution will have to be the watch word , but caution must not be the excuse for shying away from the challenges of this changing continent . |
| 12 | At the same time , however , he earned massive public support for standing up to the most widely feared and despised Soviet institution . |
| 13 | There was a violent row in the Bundestag , for instance , when the SPD leader , Kurt Schuhmacher , attacked Adenauer for cosying up to the enemy by calling him ‘ the Allies ' Chancellor ’ in 1949 . |
| 14 | The West 's involvement in Iraq gave it responsibility for dealing actively with the situation there , despite the mealy-mouthed excuses for allowing Saddam Hussein to survive . |
| 15 | Skinner was also given responsibility for liaising closely with the troika at the apex of Bush 's re-election campaign . |
| 16 | BR 's corporate planning was reformed to fit in with the new structure by devolving responsibility for planning largely to the five businesses and by developing ‘ action plans ’ to commit lower level management to business objectives ( Heath 1984 : 221 ) . |
| 17 | If the potential for cost reduction through learning more about the product and its manufacturing processes is significant , the experience-curve theory shows how cost analysis and pricing can be used to protect that strategic advantage . |
| 18 | And Braque : ‘ When the fragmentation of objects appeared in my painting around 1910 , it was as a technique for getting closer to the object … ’ |
| 19 | Ian equalised for the Palace a few minutes after coming on to the field , then put us ahead in extra-time for one of the most telling substitutions in the annals of the great competition |
| 20 | Ironically the champions had apparently weathered the storm after falling behind to a Mark Roberts diving header on the hour mark . |
| 21 | Ironically the champions had apparently weathered the storm after falling behind to a Mark Roberts diving header on the hour mark . |
| 22 | Once , 24 hours after getting back to the office , I fell ill — with symptoms very like scrub typhus , a tick-borne disease — felt rotten , lost two and a half stone in the next fortnight , could n't eat , had hallucinations . |
| 23 | She was found dead hours after walking out of the unit in a suicidal state after her family had been told it was secure . |
| 24 | ‘ The first thing I want is a bath , ’ said Kenichi Horie after coming ashore on the southern island of Okinawa . |
| 25 | After breaking the ice last month he was desperately unlucky in an amateur riders ' race having to be switched in the final furlong after getting off on the rails . |
| 26 | Northern Ireland international striker Colin Clarke retains his place in Portsmouth 's team for the home League game against Tranmere after scoring twice in the FA Cup victory at Middlesbrough in midweek . |
| 27 | A day of sorrows for Crusaders was capped just before half-time when the usually lethal Sid Burrows was booked for throwing the ball away and referee Alan Snoddy had a word with manager Roy Walker for coming on to the pitch . |
| 28 | ‘ People do n't get premiums for staying late into the night , because often they 're not doing very much , ’ she says ominously . |
| 29 | Okay Ron there are , thanks for coming over for a start , there are you 've got all the er the brochure and the er obviously the application form . |
| 30 | ‘ Forgive my asking , ’ she added , ‘ But are n't you wearing rather impractical gear for grubbing around in the earth or whatever it is you do ? ’ |